Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.

A scientist said robots will be more (1) _____ than humans by 2029. The scientist's name is Ray Kurzweil. He works for Google as Director of Engineering. He is one of the world's (2) _____ experts on artificial intelligence (A.I.). Mr Kurzweil believes computers will be able to learn from experiences, just like humans. He also thinks they will be able to (3) jokes and stories, and even flirt. Kurzweil's 2029 prediction is a lot sooner than many people thought. The scientist said that in 1999, many A.I. experts said it would be hundreds of years (4) _____ a computer was more intelligent than a human. He said that it would not be (5) _____ before computer intelligence is one billion times more powerful than the human brain.
Mr Kurzweil joked that many years ago, people thought he was a (6) _____ crazy for predicting computers would be as intelligent as humans. His thinking has stayed the same but everyone (7) _____ has changed the way they think. He said: "My views are not radical any more. I've actually stayed consistent. It's the rest of the world that's changing (8) _____ view." He highlighted examples of (9) _____ -tech things we use, see or read about every day. These things make us believe that computers have intelligence. He said people think (10) _____ now: "Because the public has seen things like Siri (the iPhone's voice recognition technology) where you talk to a computer, they've seen the Google self-driving cars."